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Karl ­ Johnston
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Aug 02, 2011 02:19 |  #1
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IMAGE: http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6126/5996626346_84c6bdff39_z.jpg

Aurora dancing over the clouds and the slave river. I shot this one two years ago, in 2009. I also found out a guy I knew (but did not know was out this night) was shooting in this same location, at the same time, in the same direction.

Here's his shot taken around the area, of the same event..I just found this out this week, after the two of us were helping each other back up the other's harddrives. We both stumbled upon a load of old work we had thought we'd lost. Here's his shot:
http://octoberlife.dev​iantart.com/gallery/#/​d3ldzz3 (external link)

...just goes to show that even with the same gear and the same subject it's a lot about the photographer's vision that creates the photograph. . not all about the expensive gear! We were using the same camera and lens, I believe. I had the 5D mark II and the tokina 11-16 2.8 and was shooting upwards and above him, whereas he must've been shooting down.

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Aug 02, 2011 12:16 |  #2

wow, awesome!


i love astrophoto

  
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Aug 08, 2011 02:27 |  #3
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cheers


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Aug 08, 2011 02:45 |  #4

That's an amazing tale, and some superb results :)




  
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Aug 10, 2011 23:46 |  #5

How close can you get to the Aurora before its too dangerous? Also which would you prefer, the Canon 10-22mm or the tokina 11-16? I am about to buy the 10-22mm, but was informed that the 11-16 is pretty good too. Im looking to take landscape, sunrise,sunset shots, maybe starry clear sky shots if new york ever gets one lol.




  
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Aug 11, 2011 11:15 |  #6

hlam wrote in post #12914177 (external link)
How close can you get to the Aurora before its too dangerous? Also which would you prefer, the Canon 10-22mm or the tokina 11-16? I am about to buy the 10-22mm, but was informed that the 11-16 is pretty good too. Im looking to take landscape, sunrise,sunset shots, maybe starry clear sky shots if new york ever gets one lol.

The only way you're going to get close to an aurora is in a stratospheric balloon or an SR-71, and even then they're not dangerous. They're just light produced by atoms and molecules in the atmosphere being excited by the solar wind.

As for the lens question, I like the Tokina 11-16 for its f/2.8.


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